Partnership: from engineering students to aquaculture experts
Li Kaijiang, 29, is from Wayao Village, Purun Town, Longchang County, Neijiang City, Sichuan Province. I used to help my family with farm work in winter and summer vacations, and I had a certain understanding of farming. After passing the college entrance examination, he entered the metallurgical major in panzhihua university and became an engineering student. At school, Li Kaijiang worked part-time while working, and also held cram schools in winter and summer vacations, earning a lot of living expenses. "Two months is almost one or two thousand yuan. Entrepreneurship has always been my dream. "
One day in the summer vacation of 20 12, Li Kaijiang and Lu Fujian, childhood friends, talked about it. Because they both had entrepreneurial ideas, when Lu Fujian mentioned that he was developing characteristic aquaculture in Gaoshan Village and invited Li Kaijiang to partner, Li Kaijiang readily agreed.
"I do, but my parents don't understand. I feel that I have finally been admitted to the university and walked out of the countryside, but I have to return to the countryside, and aquaculture has a large investment and high risk. " However, after many contacts with Lu Fujian and other partners and on-the-spot understanding of the situation, Li Kaijiang was very optimistic about the agricultural resources market and persuaded his parents to lend tens of thousands of yuan. Together with his own savings, * * * was included in the stock of 654.38+ten thousand yuan, and he built a new loach breeding base in Purun Town in partnership to artificially breed fry in loach seedlings and Wu Bai.
Dreams are beautiful, but reality is cruel. Born in engineering, I don't know anything about aquaculture, and I am very professional. I can only learn from scratch.
In 20 14, when the water was changed for white mullet, the water in Likai River was too high, which caused more than 40,000 white mullet to run out and enter the fish pond, with a loss of nearly 40,000 yuan. "Because white mullet will? Kill each other? Once in the fish pond, there is not much left. "
What if there is no technology? Then study!
"There are many large-scale breeding companies around Purun. I will go and see and learn when I have time." Li Kaijiang said that as a "rural baby", she is familiar with everything in the countryside. All the farmers around her were known or known when she was young. She had the cheek to study, and no one would say anything.
Li Kaijiang not only learned from "soil experts", but also used his spare time to learn various theoretical knowledge through the Internet, books and other channels. He combined the actual situation of the breeding base, repeatedly observed the practice and summarized the refining experience. In addition, under the guidance of experts from Longchang Fisheries Bureau, Li Kaijiang gradually mastered many techniques of spawning, hatching and standardized seedling raising of loach.
Hit hard: partners are separated, leaving only themselves.
"In the beginning, our monthly salary was only a few hundred yuan." Li Kaijiang said that in the first two years of the development of the breeding base, only a large amount of investment was seen, but the benefits were few. Expenditure is far greater than income, and several partners can only get one month's salary from others a year.
Gradually, some partners can't keep going, some people start to leave, and others join in one after another. People come and go, only Li Kaijiang and Lu Fujian persisted.
In times of difficulty, all levels and departments in Longchang lend a helping hand, including business start-up subsidies, interest-free loans, technical guidance, business start-up support project funds, and office space renovation. With the help of government departments, Li Kaijiang's team began to try to integrate town and village resources, further expand the scale of breeding, and become a breeding alliance integrating production, sales and management, which not only developed itself, but also promoted the development of surrounding farmers, providing farmers with better technology.
After more than four years of development, Li Kaijiang's team's breeding base has flourished, with the breeding area expanded from the original 10 mu to more than 60 mu, and the annual output value increased from the original 10 million yuan to more than 800,000 yuan. It has been recognized as a provincial-level college students' entrepreneurial technology incubation base, Sichuan University Graduate Pioneer Park (incubation base) and Longchang Youth Entrepreneurship Demonstration Base.
Everything seems to be developing in a good direction. Li Kaijiang will never know that a bigger Waterloo is approaching quietly.
Since 20 16, the market price of loach fry has fallen sharply, from the initial 50 cents to 40 cents, and Li Kaijiang's breeding base has suffered heavy losses. "For example, a batch of 40,000 loach seedlings can sell for 20,000 yuan, and now it can only sell 1600 yuan. The difference is too big. It is estimated that the loss of labor and other inputs is too great. "
Continuous losses, coupled with the continuous decline in loach seedlings prices, made the remaining partners gradually flinch and leave. At the end of 20 16, Lu Fujian and other three partners all left, leaving only Li Kaijiang.
"I was a little discouraged at the time, but I felt that since I contracted the people's land, I was responsible for the people and my own entrepreneurial dream." Li Kaijiang immediately took over all the affairs of the breeding base and began to explore new ways out.
Transformation frog breeding: the annual output value of the base is over one million.
Neijiang, Chengdu and Chongqing Li Kaijiang went to many places to do market research, and found that the frog breeding market in various places was in good condition, with a large demand, but a small supply.
The goal was set, but the frog breeding technology was more difficult than the loach breeding technology, so Li Kaijiang found a frog breeding base in Dongxing District to learn the technology. In two months, Li Kaijiang ate and lived in the base, followed the "experts" to the fields and went uphill, studied hard, and soon mastered the breeding technology and skills.
In March of 20 17, Li Kaijiang took out 1 mu paddy field for trial planting. After careful breeding, after 4 months, the frog 1000 kilograms was successfully sold, with an output value of more than 40 thousand yuan.
In March this year, Li Kaijiang expanded the scale of frog breeding to more than 10 mu, plus more than 50 mu of yellow Latin and white mullet. By the end of this year, Li Kaijiang's aquaculture base is expected to achieve an annual output value of over one million yuan. "I just signed a contract in Songlin Village to transfer 30 mu of paddy fields, all of which are used to raise frogs." Li Kaijiang calculated that by the end of next year, the entire aquaculture base is expected to achieve an annual output value of 2.5 million yuan.
Seeing that Li Kaijiang's aquaculture is thriving, the surrounding villagers are eager to try. Huang Sheng, a villager in Group 4 of Wayao Village, found Li Kaijiang many times, hoping to learn frog breeding with him. Li Kaijiang did not hide it, saying that as long as any villager is willing to learn, he is willing to teach for free.
When he became rich, he did not forget the people in his hometown. When choosing base workers, Li Kaijiang often gives priority to poor households and villagers with land transfer. Nine groups of villagers in Qinggang Village were once one of them.
From agricultural cultivation with an annual income of only 1000 yuan to a monthly income of 2,000 yuan, I once felt much younger and full of energy. "I have worked in the base for two years, two thousand a month, plus the annual land transfer fee, and I have nearly 30,000 income a year, which is much better than farming."
Nowadays, driven by Li Kaijiang, the traditional aquaculture model in Purun Town has changed a lot. Breeding varieties have changed from the traditional "four big fish" to high-profit varieties such as white mullet, yellow-crowned pheasant and hairy crab. Instead of copying the past farming experience, more scientific and technological farming methods have been added to facilitate villagers to work nearby.